Body as Medium: Queer Lineages of Duration, Resonance, and Excess

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Body as Medium: Queer Lineages of Duration, Resonance, and Excess will experiment with form: the university “seminar” and durational performance. This class, jointly offered by the departments of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (TAPS), will be led by Fall 2024 BAI Associate Professor of Practice Julie Tolentino, whose artistic practice extends across performance-installation, movement, sculpture, video, and sound. Over several decades, Tolentino created an archive of interdisciplinary artworks rooted in the rich lineages of AIDS activism, underground nightlife, and queer rituals of mourning and caregiving. We will visit Tolentino’s archive as a generative resource for thinking with past and future methodologies, lifeworlds, and (im)material concerns to investigate multi-generational artists’ practices. Participants agree to develop, experiment, and perform in public as a form of study and discovery. No previous performance experience is necessary.